Quotes About Knowledge

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

The goals of an intelligent life, according to Socrates, is to pursue the philosophic quest—to increase one's knowledge of self and world.

Just Say Know

Cuanto más sabes acerca de algo, tanto más extraño se vuelve.

One cannot learn the things that unmask wisdom at the speed to which we have become accustomed in contemporary living. There are no short cuts.

John Calvin said, "For errors can never be uprooted from human hearts until a true knowledge of God is planted therein." 5

Knowledge of doctrine is not the same as Christian maturity and victory over sin.

What is truth?" Sometimes people ask this question because they wish to do nothing. Generic cynicism makes us feel hip and alternative even as we slip along with our fellow citizens into a morass of indifference. It is your ability to discern facts that makes you an individual, and our collective trust in common knowledge that makes us a society.

Once truth had become oracular rather than factual, evidence was irrelevant.

What the great political thinker Hannah Arendt meant by totalitarianism was not an all-powerful state, but the erasure of the difference between private and public life. We are free only insofar as we exercise control over what people know about us, and in what circumstances they come to know it.

Inevitability and eternity have specific propaganda styles. Inevitability politicians spin facts into a web of well-being. Eternity politicians suppress facts in order to dismiss the reality that people are freer and richer in other countries, and the idea that reforms could be formulated on the basis of knowledge.

get the screens out of your room and surround yourself with books.

History does not repeat, but it does instruct

It is your ability to discern facts that makes you an individual, and our collective trust in common knowledge that makes us a society. The individual who investigates is also the citizen who builds. The leader who dislikes the investigators is a potential tyrant.

Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom

When we repeat the same words and phrases that appear in the daily media, we accept the absence of a larger framework. To have such a framework requires more concepts, and having more concepts requires reading. So get the screens out of your room and surround yourself with books. The characters in Orwell's and Bradbury's books could not do this—but we still can.

If young people do not begin to make history, politicians of eternity and inevitability will destroy it. And to make history, young Americans will have to know some. This is not the end, but a beginning.

to make history, young Americans will have to know some. This is not the end, but a beginning.

Final truth in this world is unattainable, but its pursuit leads the individual away from unfreedom.

It is your ability to discern facts that makes you an individual, and our collective trust in common knowledge that makes us a society. The individual who investigates is also the citizen who builds. The leader who dislikes the investigators is a potential tyrant. During

We are free only insofar as we exercise control over what people know about us, and in what circumstances they come to know it. During

If we have no control over who reads what and when, we have no ability to act in the present or plan for the future. Whoever

To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so.

that thing you think everyone is saying. Make an effort to separate yourself from the internet. Read books.